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Understandability is the concept that a system should be presented so that an engineer can easily comprehend it. The more understandable a system is, the easier it will be for engineers to change it in a predictable and safe manner. A system is understandable if it meets the following criteria: complete, concise, clear, and organized.

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Sonali Sharma and Shriya Arora describe how Netflix solved a complex join of two high-volume event streams using Flink. They also talk about managing out of order events and processing late arriving data, exploring keyed state for maintaining large state, fault tolerance of a stateful application, strategies for failure recovery, data validation batch vs streaming, and more.

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Tim Cochran presents research gathered from ThoughtWorks' varied clients and projects, and shows some of the metrics their teams have identified as guides to creating the platform and the culture for high performing teams.

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Kesha Williams

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Kesha Williams (@KeshaWillz) is a software engineer that's been coding Java since the '90s, machine learning practitioner, and technical instructor at A Cloud Guru. She's earned the distinction of both Alexa Champion and AWS Machine Learning Hero from Amazon.

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Kesha Williams is an award-winning software engineer, machine learning practitioner, and technical instructor at A Cloud Guru with 24 years’ experience. She's trained and mentored thousands of Java software engineers in the US, Europe, and Asia while teaching at the university level. She routinely leads innovation teams in proving out emerging technologies and shares her learnings at conferences across the globe. She's spoken about machine learning on the TED stage as a winner of TED’s Spotlight Presentation Academy. Additionally, her pioneering work in the field of artificial intelligence earned her the distinction of both Alexa Champion and AWS Machine Learning Hero from Amazon. In her spare time, she mentors women in tech through her online social & professional networking platform, Colors of STEM.